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Gerard Killoran · Post by **Gerard Killoran** » Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:48 am

The competiton for the MCCU County Championship turned into a bit of a marathon, with three draws and Leicestershire beating Staffordshire in the third replay. The first replay was not without controversy as the Leicestershire team seemed to be unaware they could lose on time. How could this be possible?

Staffordshire Sentinel - Monday 14 April 1902.png

...and a bonus:

Gerard Killoran · Post by **Gerard Killoran** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:08 pm

Odds and ends

John Saunders · Post by **John Saunders** » Thu Oct 13, 2022 5:53 pm

Gerard Killoran wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:08 pm
Odds and ends

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Many thanks for these games, Gerard, plus the ones you have posted here over the past month. I've now added them to BritBase.

Gerard Killoran · Post by **Gerard Killoran** » Mon Oct 17, 2022 10:07 pm

From the under 15s at Whitby 1962 where a young Bill Hartston gets taken down in style:

Crewe Chronicle - Saturday 01 September 1962 p12.png

John Townsend · Post by **John Townsend** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 8:45 am

I assume it is the same Ron Moss who in the 1970s played for ICL, based at Bracknell.

John Saunders · Post by **John Saunders** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 10:37 am

The Moss-Hartston and Patterson-Moss games are already on BritBase. Andy Ansel sent me Moss-Hartston which he found in Junior Chess, December 1962, while I think I must have sourced Patterson-Moss from chessgames dot com myself.

It was indeed the same Ron Moss who played for ICL Bracknell. There was some discussion of this here 12 years ago when we were researching British champions' names - viewtopic.php?f=27&t=2129&p=38344&hilit ... oss#p38376

John Clarke · Post by **John Clarke** » Wed Oct 19, 2022 10:10 am

I remember that Moss-Hartston game from its publication in Junior Chess. The editors gave Black's 10th move a "!" (and Stockfish agrees it's best). White's reply, deciding to mix it (justified by the game's outcome) rather than submit to loss of a P and/or an inferior position, got the brief comment "Moss must win this game to win the title!" Black had the edge until his 12th, which turned a -1.9 advantage into a +2.3 for White. Moss let some of it slip at one point, but Hartston's 14. ... Kf8? (Ke7 better) was the final ruination.

Gerard Killoran · Post by **Gerard Killoran** » Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:38 pm

John Saunders wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 18, 2022 10:37 am
The Moss-Hartston and Patterson-Moss games are already on BritBase. Andy Ansel sent me Moss-Hartston which he found in Junior Chess, December 1962, while I think I must have sourced Patterson-Moss from chessgames dot com myself.

It was indeed the same Ron Moss who played for ICL Bracknell. There was some discussion of this here 12 years ago when we were researching British champions' names - viewtopic.php?f=27&t=2129&p=38344&hilit ... oss#p38376

Apologies. I scrolled down the games and assumed that the u15s would be after the u18s, so I missed them.

David McAlister · Post by **David McAlister** » Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:49 pm

John Saunders wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 18, 2022 10:37 am
The Moss-Hartston and Patterson-Moss games are already on BritBase. Andy Ansel sent me Moss-Hartston which he found in Junior Chess, December 1962, while I think I must have sourced Patterson-Moss from chessgames dot com myself.

The Patterson-Moss game is to be found at page 376 of Chess, Volume 27.

It is sandwiched between 2 games from the British Junior (Under 21 Championship, namely Boyers-Feavyour and Richardson-Mabbs - both already in Britbase. However, the latter ends with "32. Rxh8 and wins" while the game score in Chess goes all the way to Black's resignation on move 41 - and it also starts differently with 1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5.

John Saunders · Post by **John Saunders** » Wed Oct 19, 2022 5:36 pm

Gerard Killoran wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:38 pm

Apologies. I scrolled down the games and assumed that the u15s would be after the u18s, so I missed them.

My fault, Gerard - I should have placed the games in a more logical order. Now amended and sources updated...

David McAlister wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:49 pm
The Patterson-Moss game is to be found at page 376 of Chess, Volume 27.

It is sandwiched between 2 games from the British Junior (Under 21 Championship, namely Boyers-Feavyour and Richardson-Mabbs - both already in Britbase. However, the latter ends with "32. Rxh8 and wins" while the game score in Chess goes all the way to Black's resignation on move 41 - and it also starts differently with 1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5.

[Event "GBR-ch49 U21"] [Site "Whitby"] [Date "1962.08.21"] [Round "8"] [White "Richardson, Keith Bevan"] [Black "Mabbs, David J"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C13"] [PlyCount "81"] [EventDate "1962.08.13"] 1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4 c5 7. Bxe7 Kxe7 8. f4 cxd4 9. Qxd4 Nc6 10. Qd2 Kf8 11. Nf3 b6 12. O-O-O Nc5 13. Bb5 Ne7 14. Nd4 Ba6 15. Bxa6 Nxa6 16. g4 Qd7 17. f5 exf5 18. Rhf1 f4 19. e6 Qd6 20. Rxf4 f6 21. g5 Ng8 22. gxf6 gxf6 23. Nf5 Qxe6 24. Re1 Qd7 25. Qg2 Qf7 26. Nxd5 Rd8 27. Rd4 Rd7 28. Rde4 Qg6 29. Re8+ Kf7 30. Qf3 Nc5 31. b4 Nh6 32. Rxh8 Nxf5 33. bxc5 Nd4 34. Qe4 Rxd5 35. Qxd5+ Kg7 36. Qd7+ Kh6 37. Qxd4 Qf5 38. Qd2+ Kh5 39. Rd8 Qf4 40. Rd5+ f5 41. Qxf4 1-0 your web browser and/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard

Many thanks for those extra moves, David. I have now added them to what appears on BritBase. When I was making the amendment, I was struck by how bizarre some of them seemed, e.g. 36 Qd7+ (instead of skewering the queen with 36 Rg8+) and even more so, Black playing 39...Qf4 as if the capture of the queen led to stalemate, but this strange play was perhaps explained by the note given in CHESS after Black's 30th move:

CHESS, September 1962, Vol.27, no.416-7, p376 wrote:Now Richardson's clock, as customary, had its flag trembling with only seconds for his next ten moves. Mabbs has a theory that it takes longer to make captures than ordinary moves...

Gerard Killoran · Post by **Gerard Killoran** » Mon Oct 24, 2022 9:58 pm

Fingers crossed...

John Saunders · Post by **John Saunders** » Tue Oct 25, 2022 10:16 am

Two excellent additions to the BritBase collection. Many thanks, Gerard.

Gerard Killoran · Post by **Gerard Killoran** » Wed Nov 02, 2022 1:54 pm

The chess column of the Crewe Chronicle, Saturday 29 September 1962 began thus...

CHESS FOR ALL (By G. CHESTERS) RECENTLY I posed the question, "How strong is the Major Open?" No answer was attempted, nor will one be givIen below. A selection of short games, however might as a whole. It must be remembered that the top and bottom players in this tournament varied greatly in playing strength.

...the answer seems to be, not very.

Also, Fridolin Jaeck's games do not tally with the cross-table.

Matt Mackenzie · Post by **Matt Mackenzie** » Wed Nov 02, 2022 3:39 pm

John Toothill was a *much* better player than that game might suggest to the uninitiated, but we all have bad days.

John Upham · Post by **John Upham** » Wed Nov 02, 2022 3:44 pm

John Townsend wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 18, 2022 8:45 am
I assume it is the same Ron Moss who in the 1970s played for ICL, based at Bracknell.

I did hear a rather troubling and sad story of how Ron spent the final times of his life on his settee.

I was told that he had failed to look after himself, lived alone, became morbidly obese and passed away in horrible circumstances and was not discovered for some days.

A rather familiar story I suppose.

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